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What is the projected shortfall of US nurses?

April 26, 2017nurses projected shortfall

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What is the projected shortfall of US nurses?

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See US Department of Labor statistics. If current trends continue, the United States will be short 275,000 nurses by the year 2010, and the nation will need to educate about 1.1 million new nurses by 2012–almost half the size of today’s nursing workforce. (See US Department of Labor “Occupational employment projections to 2012” (pdf).) The Department of Labor has predicted that the number of nurses needed in the workforce will grow by 623,000 to 2.9 million nurses by 2012–a 27% increase–and that there will be a need for 236,000 new nurses per year to keep up with increasing care demands and nurse retirement.